How to Clean up your Business
Overview:
The article Spring Cleaning by Gwen Moran focuses on mistakes small businesses make and the simple yet effective solutions to them. Most of these solutions are presented by consultants who have worked first hand in turning companies around. Many of these concepts show how little changes can make a big difference to small and mid size businesses. It biggest point is how to keep cost down and be more efficient. This article will be described and compared to real life opinions and management 325.
This article specifically finds solutions to business problems with simple and cost effective solutions. One of the more interesting topics is how to utilize employee salaries. Kristen Marquet founder of Marquet media found this to be a big problem with a simple solution. She realized that she had spent ten thousand dollars on menial tasks like book keeping and web designing. After doing further research she hired a book keeper at a quarter of the cost and a web designer. These simple and quick solutions freed her up to do more important tasks like running her business. It also saves money and leaves the higher level executives to focus on their tasks at hand.
Kimberly Medlock talks about how to focuses on untamed distraction that needs to be cut out of the work place. An estimated thirty eight hours a year is lost by employees looking for misplaced items. Not to mention the constant web browsing during office hours. It goes on to say that their needs to be hard copies of everything done in the business so when and if the workers need them they can be found. Miss placing items happens, but if you are prepared and know what to look for the workers can adjust accordingly. Kimberly Medlock also urges employers to unsubscribe to any non important emails and install Anti-Social or Rescue Time software which puts a wall up from your